Model Talk

Crystal Wrenn in a Mark Fast DressThe seemingly politically-correct Fashion Designer Mark Fast once again used plus-sized models during Fashion Week to showcase his designs. There was a mixture of the usual sized 2 models and plus-sized models on the runway, including Crystal Wrenn (sized 12), who has been in the news since her magazine spread/semi-competition with a size 2 model.

While I am impressed with Mark Fast for his willingness to use models of different sizes,  it doesn’t seem that much consideration was put into how the designs would actually look on the models of different sizes. Let’s face it- some designs are more suitable for the Twiggys of the world and some are better suited to the rest of us.
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Cycle 14 of America's Next Top Model has already begun! I can't wait to see what craziness Tyra Banks brings to this season's show. Here are some of the best moments from past shows.

Amazing Alexander McQueen DesignBritish Fashion Design Alexander McQueen was recently found dead at the tender age of 40. During his prestigious career, he dressed the celebrities, including Sarah Jessica Parker of “Sex and the City” fame and was awarded “Fashion Designer of the Year” four times. He was known was pushing the edge of fashion with his innovative designs.

In addition to his strange and beautiful fashion sense, he was known as a risk-taker unlike any in the fashion industry. Back in 1998, Alexander McQueen boldly had a double amputee walk the runway with wooden legs.
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Bree CondonSurprise, surprise. Not every online dating profile is legitimate, but this story that broke recently in the LA Times is more than a little different.  Recently, an imposter on the dating site www.seekingamillionaire.com  going by the name of “Bree” was caught by authorities for the crime of cheating several men out of their money and for the more serious crime of “identity theft”.

The “fake Bree” created a profile as a model seeking out multiple millionaires on www.seekingmillionaire.com Unfortuantely for the men, the “Bree” who made her profile available on the strange dating site is not actually an 23-year-old aspiring model who has posed for Guess.
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Jennifer Hawkins in Marie ClaireMarie Claire is being bold by putting a Miss Universe on the cover of their magazine without first being photoshopped. That’s right- no photoshopping for the woman who was in 2004 deemed so beautiful that she won the title indicating the most beautiful woman in the world.

The former Miss Universe is named Jennifer Hawkins and the magazine is supposedly putting her on the cover to indicate that real women are indeed beautiful. The move was  probably also in reaction to some of the recent photoshopping scandals in which women were trimmed to microscopic proportions.

The proceeds from that issue will be donated to the Butterfly Foundation, which is an eating disorders support group.
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Sized 2I am a big fan of the trend of giving magazine (and possibly runway) space to plus-sized models who actually might give a realistic impression of what a woman would actually look like in a particular item of clothing. The most notable cases are the spread in Vogue with the plus-sized models and the new spread with Crystal Renn at a healthy sized 12 and her sized 2 counterpart. All I have to say is, “You go girls!”Sized 12
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Heidilicious

German Supermodel Heidi Klum will be featured in a new book which is chock-full of Heidi Klum photographs, including some nudes.  Some of the best photographs in the book are reported to be those of Heidi  covered in chocolate, which can’t be a bad thing. Read more

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Wow! These women are actually look like real women, and they're fashion models! This is obviously before the heroin chic trend came into being.

Vogue Models 1981